Google is not just email. It's the email client. It's the calendar. It's the calendar integration with email. How do you replace those?
Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
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#12This question comes up a couple times every month. FastMail always comes up as a recommendation, so if you search comments for FastMail, you’ll find every past thread (and relatively few false positives): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru... Example from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128198
Every service has their haters and lovers. While people in G-suite threads swear that moving to fast mail or MS is the best options, in Microsoft threads people complain about clunky MS interface. It is always full circle! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30141192
I'm a happy Fastmail customer for e-mail but they don't do everything Workspace does. Microsoft is a more direct alternative with all the Office apps etc and personally I like the web Outlook interface way better than GMail.
Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
#13This was asked last week with some good answers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128198
This monster thread about the original announcement is full of them as well:
Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
#14I would recommend hey.com
Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
#15How about free email plan from your web hosting? Many hosting companies provide free email plan when you host your domain/website with them. If you have a personal domain/website, why don't use the free email hosting? If you need more features, they also provide upgraded plans.
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#16Google is not just email. It's the email client. It's the calendar. It's the calendar integration with email. How do you replace those?
> How do you replace those?
These days? Pretty easily!
Fastmail also has an email client, and a calendar. The calendar is integrated into its email service too. And the calendar integrates really well with iCal / CalDAV. I find fastmail syncs calendar entries between my apple devices more reliably than apple's own icloud.
The big hole in fastmail's offering is that they have no replacement for google docs & spreadsheets.
Microsoft Outlook + 365 (as others have suggested) also does pretty much everything gsuite does.
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#17I've decided that I'd rather give my money to someone else
Why? the less cumbersome route is to pay google.
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#19I will keep the free version of "google cloud identity" so I kan keep my google account and things connected to it; things like drive documents, YouTube account, app purchases, and so on. But then I intend to move my email domain to iCloud.
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#20HN is a hard place for people who like Microsoft but I'll tell you that a single user Office 365 Business Essentials subscription is a great deal. Along with e-mail you get a terabyte of Sharepoint (OneDrive) storage, online versions of office apps, and Teams. $5/mo. There's an IMAP migration tool. Just turn on IMAP on your Gmail account if it's not already enabled and let the O365/Exchange wizard suck all the e-mail…
A sibling comment also pointed out Microsoft 365 plans [1] that run $70/year for 1 person and $100/year for up to 6 people.
[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/outloo...